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Friday, July 22, 2022

List of Aristotle's four causes

This post is a list of Aristotle's four causes. Source: Wikipedia: Four causes, 4.12.22 UTC 12:14

1. Material: "...material that composes the moving or changing things."
2. Formal: "...arrangement, shape, or appearance of the thing changing or moving."
3. Effective: "...things apart from the thing being changed or moved..."
4. Final: "...for the sake of a thing to be what it is."

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